Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-26
UNITED LABOR PARTY.
WHAT THE NEW POLITICAL METEOR PRO-
POSES T0D
In the Way Of Reforming the COunty-A Call Fol
a Convention in the Empire State-Henry
Georges Land Doctrines Endorsed
The New Paty's Plans

SYRACUSE, n. Y, May 25.-A call for 1
State convention of the United Labor par
ty, to be held in this city on August 18th
has been issued.
The ratio of representation is three del
egates and three alternates from each As
sembly district, and one delegate from
each Land and Labor Club in district
where there is no Assembly district organ
ization.
The purpose of the convention is t.
nominate such officers as are to be vote(
for at the November election. Following
is the call:
1--WE see that the few who contract thC
natural elements of production-the mines
the building sites of cities, the arabic ant
forest lands, etc-by taking advantage o
the competition among men who without
access of these natural elements cannot
live, are enabled to lay taxes upon bOtt
labor and capital to the full extent of theil
endurance. We see access to farming land
denied to labor, except on payment of eX'
orbitant rent or the acceptance of mort
gage burdens, and labor, thus forbidden
to employ itself, driven into the cities
We see the wage-wOrkers Of the cities sub
ieCted to the unnatural competition, and
forced to pay an exorbitant share of theiI
scanty earnings for Cramped up and un'
healthful lodgings. We see the same in
tense competition COndemning the great
majority Of business and professional meu
to bitter and often unavailing struggle
to avoid bankruptcy, and that, while the
price of all that labor produces ever falls
the price of land ever rises.
We trace these evils to
A FUNDAMENTAL WRONG
the making of the land on which all must
live the exclusive property of but 4 portion
of the community. TO this denial of nat.
ural rights are due want of employment
low wages, business depressiOns, that in
tense competition which makes it so diff
cult for the majority of men TO get com
Portable living, and that wrongful distribu
tion OF wealth which is producing the
millionaire on one side and the tramp Oh
the other.
TO give all men an interest in the land
of their country; to enable all to share il
the benefits Of social growth and improve
ment; to prevent the shutting out OF labor
from employment by the monopOliZatiOu
of natural opportunities; to do away with
the One-sided competition which cut
4 10 o. a IN
life to business and prevent periodical
depressiOns; 10 do away with that mon,
strous injustice which deprives producers
of the fruits of their toll while idlerS grow
rich; to prevent the conflicts which are or.
raging class against class, and which art
traught with menacing dangers to society,
we propose so to change the existing sys
TEN Of taxation that no one will be taxed
on the wealth he produces, nor any one
suffered TO appropriate wealth he does not
produce by taking to himself the increased
values which the growth OF society adds tC
land.
What We propose is
NOT THE DISTURBING OF ANY MAN
in his holding or title, but by abolshing
all taxes on industry or its products ia
leave the producer the full fruits OF his ex-
ertiOn, and by the taxation of land values,
exclusive OF improvements, to devote to
common uses those values which, arising
not from the exertion OF the individual,
but from the growth of society, belong
Justly to the community ~ a whole. This
increased taxation OF land, not according
to its area, but according TO is value,
must, while relieving the working farmer
and small homestead owner of the undue
burdens now imposed upon them, make it
unprOftable tO hold land for speculation,
and thus throw open abundant OppOrtuni-
ties for the employment of labor and the
building up of homes.
1--WE would do away with the present
unjust and wasteiul system of finance
which piles up hundreds OF millions of dol
lars in treasury vaults while we are paying
interest on an enormous debt; and We
would establish in its stead monetary
system in which o legal tender circulating
medium should be issued by the Govern
ment without the intervention of banks
ave wish to abolish the present unjust
and waStelnl system Of ownership of rail
roads and tclegraphS by private corpora.
tionS, n system which, while failing ade-
quately to supply public needs, impover-
iSheS the farmer, OppresSes the manulaC-
turer, hampers the merchant, impedes
travel and communication, and builds up
enormous fortunes and cOrrupting mOnOp.
olies that are becoming more powerful than
the Government itself For this system
we would substitute that of government
ownership and control, for the benefit of
the whole people instead of private profit
''SinCe
THE BALLOT * THE ONLY MEANS
by which in our republic the redress of
political and social grievances is to be
sought, we especially call for such changes
in our elective and political methods as
shall do away with that necessity for the
use of money in elections which has made
both of the old political organizations mere
auctioueers' stands for the gaze of nomina-
tions to the highest bidders and has rem
dered political Office inaccessible except to
the wealthy and INSCRIPTIONS.
"We denOunCe the Democratic and Re
publican parties aS hOpelessly and shame
lessly corrupt, and, by reason OF their ailil
iation with monopolies, equally unworthy
OF the SutlrageS Of those who do not live
on public plunder; we therefore require OF
those who would act with us that they
sever all connection with both, and insist
that no candidate nor person acting for
any candidate TO be nominated by us shall
make any combination with any other
party, their candidates or those acting for
them"
THE STATE PENITENTIARY.
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